attic

See also: Attic

English

Etymology

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈætɪk/, [ˈæɾɪk]
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ætɪk

Noun

attic (plural attics)

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
Synonym: loft
(slang) A person's head or brain.
Synonym: upper storey
- 1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street (page 105)
  […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.

Derived terms

attic ladder
atticless
atticlike
toys in the attic

Translations

space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof

Afrikaans: solder
Albanian: papafingo f, hatull (sq) f
Arabic: عِلِّيَّة‎ f (ʿilliyya)
Moroccan Arabic: صطيحة‎ f (ṣṭiḥa)
Armenian: ձեղնահարկ (hy) (jełnahark)
Azerbaijani: çardaq (az), mansarda
Belarusian: гары́шча n (harýšča), падда́шак m (paddášak), манса́рда f (mansárda), гара́ (be) f (hará)
Breton: mañsardenn f, grignol (br) f, solier (br) f
Bulgarian: тава́н (bg) m (taván), манса́рда f (mansárda)
Burmese: သင်္ဘောကြမ်း (my) (sangbhau:kram:)
Catalan: golfes (ca) f pl, àtic (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 閣樓／阁楼 (zh) (gélóu)
Czech: půda (cs) f, podkroví (cs) n, podstřeší n
Danish: loftsrum
Dutch: zolder (nl) m
Esperanto: mansardo (eo)
Estonian: pööning
Faroese: loft n
Finnish: vintti (fi), ullakko (fi)
French: grenier (fr) m, combles (fr) m pl, mansarde (fr) f
Galician: rocho (gl) m, faiado (gl) m, sobrado (gl) m, zapón m, faillo m
Georgian: მანსარდა (mansarda), სხვენი (sxveni)
German: Dachgeschoss (de) n, Dachboden (de) m, Estrich (de) m (Switzerland)
Greek: σοφίτα (el) f (sofíta)
Hebrew: עֲלִיַת גַג / עליית גג‎ f (aliat gag)
Hindi: अटारी (hi) f (aṭārī)
Hungarian: padlás (hu), manzárd (hu)
Icelandic: háaloft n, þakhæð f, loft (is) n, ris n, rishæð f, (informal) hanabjálki m
Ido: atiko (io)
Indonesian: loteng (id)
Irish: áiléar m
Italian: soffitta (it) f, solaio (it) m
Japanese: 屋根裏 (やねうら, yaneura)
Kazakh: шатыр (şatyr)
Khmer: ស្កាក (km) (skaak)
Korean: 다락방 (ko) (darakbang)
Kyrgyz: чердак (çerdak), чатыр (ky) (çatır)
Ladino: mosandara, musandara
Lao: ຄ່ວນ (khūan)
Latvian: mansards m
Lithuanian: palėpė f
Macedonian: поткровје n (potkrovje), таван m (tavan)
Malay: loteng (ms)
Jawi: لوتيڠ‎
Mongolian: дээвэр чердак (deever čerdak)
Norman: mansarde f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: loft (no) n
Nynorsk: loft n
Old East Slavic: чердакъ m (čerdakŭ), чардакъ m (čardakŭ)
Ottoman Turkish: طوان‎ (tavan)
Persian: زیرشیروانی‎ (zir-(e)-širvâni)
Plautdietsch: Bowabän m
Polish: strych (pl) m, poddasze (pl) n, mansarda (pl) f
Portuguese: sótão (pt) m
Romanian: pod (ro), mansardă (ro)
Russian: черда́к (ru) m (čerdák), манса́рда (ru) f (mansárda)
Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-mullaich m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: та̀ван m, поткровље n, поткровница f, мансарда f
Roman: tàvan (sh) m, potkrovlje (sh) n, potkrovnica (sh) f, mansarda (sh) f, najže n (Croatia)
Slovak: podkrovie n, manzarda f
Slovene: podstrešje (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: najśpa f
Spanish: buhardilla (es) f, desván (es) m, zaquizamí (es) m, sobrado (es) m, covacha f
Sudovian: riklas m
Swedish: vind (sv) c
Tajik: мансард (mansard)
Telugu: అటక (te) (aṭaka)
Thai: ห้องใต้หลังคา (hɔ̂ng-dtâi-lǎng-kaa), ห้องเพดาน (hɔ̂ng-pee-daan)
Turkish: tavanarası (tr), çatı katı (tr)
Turkmen: üçek
Ukrainian: гори́ще (uk) n (horýšče), манса́рда f (mansárda), стрих m (stryx), а́ттик m (áttyk)
Urdu: اٹاری‎ (ur) f (aṭārī)
Uzbek: cherdak (uz), mansarda
Venetian: solèr (vec) m
Vietnamese: gác (vi), gác xép (vi)
Volapük: nufalucem (vo), masadacem (vo)
Walloon: gurnî (wa) m
Welsh: taflod f

Anagrams

Catti, tacit, ticat

Romanian

Adjective

attic m or n (feminine singular attică, masculine plural attici, feminine and neuter plural attice)

Obsolete form of atic.

Declension

Declension of attic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	attic		attică	attici	attice
nominative/ accusative	definite	atticul		attica	atticii	atticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	attic		attice	attici	attice
genitive/ dative	definite	atticului		atticei	atticilor	atticelor

References

attic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN